December 4, 02:10 PM • 36312 viewsNASA management is confident that the capsule with the Boeing Starliner crew will be able to launch safely on June 1, despite a small helium leak in the propulsion system, as the leak does not pose a safety hazard and the capsule can withstand even 100 times the leakage.
China imposed sanctions on 12 American arms manufacturers and their executives for allegedly selling weapons to Taiwan and ignoring China's position on the “Ukrainian crisis.
NASA has postponed the debut manned flight of the Boeing Starliner capsule due to a helium leak in the spacecraft's propulsion system, and the next possible launch date is still being discussed.
A Singapore Airlines Boeing 777-300ER plane collided with severe turbulence during a flight from the UK to Singapore, injuring 30 people and killing one passenger. The pilot was forced to make an emergency landing in Bangkok.
China has imposed sanctions on three more American defense companies - Boeing's defense and space division, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, and General Dynamics Land Systems - for supplying weapons to Taiwan.
Boeing has postponed the launch of the manned Starliner space capsule to the International Space Station for the second time due to a small helium leak detected in the ship's service module.
The United States plans to expand a military plant in Oklahoma to increase production of the GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator bomb, designed to destroy heavily fortified underground military installations, to 6-8 bombs per month by the fall of 2024.
An Air Senegal Boeing 737-300 airplane rolls off the runway in Senegal, injuring at least 10 people, four of them seriously, on a flight to Bamako, Mali.
The U. S. suspends arms shipments to Israel over fears of a possible invasion of Rafah in Gaza.
British startup Wayve has raised more than $1 billion in funding led by SoftBank to develop self-learning autonomous driving technology, the largest AI funding in the UK to date.
The first manned test flight of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station is postponed again due to a technical problem with the oxygen valve on the Atlas V rocket.
Boeing is facing production delays and reduced deliveries of 787 Dreamliners due to a shortage of heat exchangers and passenger seats caused by sanctions against Russia and problems in the supply chain.
The Canadian government has granted aerospace companies Airbus and Bombardier exemptions from restrictions on the use of Russian titanium despite sanctions, which has caused outrage among Ukraine's ambassador and prompted the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee to hold hearings on the decision.
Japan's Osaka-Kansai Airport hasn't lost a single piece of luggage in its 30 years of operation thanks to careful design optimized for efficient baggage handling and tracking.
The Pentagon has allocated $13 billion to develop a new "doomsday aircraft" called the Survivable Airborne Operations Center (SAOC) with Sierra Nevada Corp, which is capable of surviving a nuclear war and replacing the current Boeing E-4 Nightwatch.
A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-800 lost its engine cover during takeoff from Denver International Airport, hitting a flap, but returned and landed safely, none of the 135 passengers en route to Houston were injured.
The Texas Attorney General is investigating the activities of Boeing's supplier Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Inc. in connection with recurring problems with spare parts supplied to Boeing.
Boeing CEO David Calhoun will resign in 2024 due to problems with the quality of the 737 Max aircraft.
While boarding a flight to Yerevan at moscow's sheremetyevo airport, a passenger claimed that there was a bomb in her carry-on bag.
Boeing has recommended that airlines check the pilot seat switches on the 787 Dreamliner after an accidental movement of the seat allegedly caused severe shaking on a LATAM Airlines flight.
A flight attendant accidentally pressed a button on the pilot's seat during a Latam Airlines flight from Sydney to Auckland, causing the pilot to be pushed onto the control panel, which led to a sudden crash of the plane, injuring about 50 passengers.
Over the next five years, the US Air Force plans to produce about a thousand unmanned fighter jets equipped with artificial intelligence to accompany and protect other aircraft.
Russian media reported that cruise missiles attacked the Crimean bridge, with enemy air defense allegedly shooting down at least 12 missiles, and the center of Sevastopol was cut off from electricity.
The Pentagon has signed a $3. 4 billion contract with Boeing for the purchase and delivery of 17 P-8A maritime aircraft to Canada and Germany by March 2028.
International law enforcement agencies have blocked the infrastructure of the LockBit hacker group that infected more than 1,600 victims in the United States and 2,000 worldwide with ransomware.
Ukraine's military intelligence chief criticized the decision of the International Court of Justice that Russia was not responsible for terrorism in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine in 2014.
The court acquitted Samsung Electronics CEO Lee Jae-yong of accounting fraud charges related to the merger of two Samsung subsidiaries in 2015.
Boeing is delaying the delivery of about fifty 737 Max passenger jets due to a recently discovered fuselage defect.
An air alert was declared in russian-occupied Sevastopol, and air defense systems were spotted on the peninsula amid reports of explosions in Crimea.
After the emergency exit door of a Boeing 737 Max aircraft fell off over Oregon, Boeing withdrew its request for a safety exemption from the FAA to allow the delivery and flight of the new 737-7 Max model.
